Newbie from the Riverland

[xoxoEbzxoxo]

Hi, I'm from the Riverland in South Australia. I have quite a lot of birds they are:
Mango the Galah
Thistle and Boxthorn the cockateils
Frankenstine the white Ringneck Dove
Big the magpie
I also have lots of chickens and might be getting some pigeons.
I use to have an Alexanderine parrot, but I sold him for $90 because I couln't find a mate availible for him.
I also do bird rescue and so far I have rescued a 2 crows, an Owlet Night Jar, a galah, 2 pigeons, 3 magpies, a yellow rosella, a noisy miner and lots more. A couple of months ago I almost got a Kookaburra and a couple of weeks ago I almost got a Nakeen Kestral. In my aviary I got a pair of cockateils and a blue budgie and a Turk parrot. The budgie and the Turk have both lost their mates and have found each other and have laid 3 eggs, but they didn't hatch.

[zooyouthben]

HI, I'm also from SA, welcome, I have a Nankeen, aswell as some Curlews.

[Phill]

Hi and welcome.

[Jane]

Hi roxy, welcome to you and your flock Sounds like a great variety please show us some piccies

[xoxoEbzxoxo]

I don't really know how to show pictures. If I knew how to I would show you some great ones. Sorry

[vankarhi]

you can save your pics on an internet site like Photobucket.com and then click on the IMG link of the pic and then post it here.

When you highlight the IMG link of the pick you want, you right click on that link, then come back to the post in this forum (or any other email or forum) then press control and v at the same time and the link should then be in your post.

You can also go onto the left side of your post and then click on the browse button (I think that is what it is called) then you can pic a photo from your pc (if you have any saved on it) then it goes into imageshack or photoshack. Then as with photobucket you click on a link, right click that is, (it must be highlighted........the link that is) then you can paste it onto the email or post you want.

I hope I have explained it properly. If you get it from your pc, you will need to resize it to a smaller size before posting. I resize all my pics for posting onto emails and forums to 800 X (whatever the other side automatically comes up to). The larger side of the pic I resize to 800.

Good luck oh and welcome. ;D

[silvercloud]

Hi and welcome. ;D My fella and I do wildlife caring as well. So far we've had kookaburras, tawny frogmouths, galahs, little corellas, elegant parrots, red capped parrots, magpies, ravens, a nankeen kestrel and a wedge tailed eagle plus some tiny ones like scarlet robins, silvereyes, honeyeaters. Because of the caring I decided to get some birds that I could keep. Good luck with your caring.

[lene]

What is the requirements to become a wildlife carer?

[silvercloud]

A lot of carers aren't registered but it's best to be as even rehabing some species you need special licenses which you need to be registered to get. To get registered in WA at least you have to do compulsory courses and work as a volunteer with a wildlife rehab centre or another registered carer. Then D.E.C. will inspect your property to make sure you have suitable cages, rooms and equipment. Every state has their own way to do it but I'm unsure of what other states do.

[xoxoEbzxoxo]

A lot of my rescued birds die from stress, but I do all I could to help them.
I some times have trouble with hand rearing my cockateils because The baby cokateils crop never empty, but now I don't hand raise I tame them and sell them to pet shops for $10 each. The tame ones act like hand raised ones any way.

About a couple of months ago I had this Goshawk hanging around and it came right up to my window trying to get my pet cockateil. Well any way the next couple of weeks it was quiet.
Then my mum found the poor old Goshawk dead in the garden. I am unsure what happenened to it. Then I went up the block and saw another Goshawk and the magpies chase it into a power box on a power line and it lay their still it probly got electricuted.

We get a lot of wild native birds hang around here like a flock of sulphur-crested cockatoos. I have noticed that in the flock of the cockatoos there is some scruffy ones that are losing their feathers. So I was wondering could they have the beak and feather disease I've heard about.

[vankarhi]

Yes we have that here too with the wild toos and I worry they have beak and feather disease too as the vet and a breeder have told me it is rampant in the wild flocks.